Probably the best example I can think of is Diane Duane reworking her Wizards series to make it modern-day, but there are others, including owners of a literary estate altering books left to them to make them compatible with current standards.
What do you think? Does it matter if it’s the original author or an inheritor?
I was reading Snow Garden by Christopher Rice and he mentioned removing dates from each chapter to make it seem more contemporary. I think they should have stayed, because the books message was contemporary enough, he didn’t need to remove them. To me it felt like the book was missing something